“I don’t know what it was about that moment but in that moment I felt like a Londoner”

Living the Dream on the Other Side of the Pond

“I don’t know what it was about that moment but in that moment I felt like a Londoner”

Saturday we were down in the tube and we walked past a guy playing flute (amazingly) against the wall. And I don’t know what it was about that moment but in that moment I felt like a Londoner. I had successfully navigated my friends and I around the tube all day and I had my fast, no-nonsense city walk down and I felt like the city girl I catch glimpses of when I visit New York. I found this quote by Ben Aaronovitch right before I left Provo and it ran through my mind when I walked past the tube musician: “My Dad says that being a Londoner has nothing to do with where you’re born. He says that there are people who get off a jumbo jet at Heathrow, go through immigration waving any kind of passport, hop on the tube and by the time the train’s pulled in to Piccadilly Circus they’ve become a Londoner.” More…